Proper way of partitioning 500GB [SOLVED]
July 26th, 2016
I preferer as low as 25GB for windows partition because that way I can clone that partition to a file. I hate installing from DVD because it takes so damn long and you have to participate.This way it only takes about 10 mins. Do you think its small for Win 7?
1 25GB NTFS Windows 7
2 75GB FAT32 Virtual Memory + Scratch Disk for Photoshop
3 200GB NTFS Program Files
4 200GB NTFS Data Partition
+ 7GB Flash Disk for Ready Boost
1 partition for OS + 1 partition data for me.
75GB for OS and program files and the rest goes to data/games
that’s my 500GB partitioned
75GB for OS and program files and the rest goes to data/games
that's my 500GB partitioned
That’s what I would do with preferably a SSD for the OS.
Forget ready boost. It would only slow you down, even if Windows allows it..
With that drive I’d have a partition of 40 gigs (more if I was a gamer) for OS and the rest for Data. Photoshop would use the free space on the OS & data partition as a scratch disk (set it up in preferences). The memory Photoshop uses can also be set up in preferences. I currently use Easeus backup software for my OS (the image takes up about 20 gigs) and I save that to a folder on my data partition. If my OS goes pear shaped I re-instal using the image in about 20 minutes (it’s seen me out of trouble a few times now).
The operating system should be at least 75 Gbytes. Then, my choice would be 1 partition for Data. Remember, a blu ray disk is 25 Gbytes, so if you put a blu ray image on the C-drive ( for some kind of processing … or even just to watch it ), then you are going to run-out of room in a hurry.
I use a 32GB drive for my system OS and never run out of space, but be sure to disable the hibernate file (who actually uses hibernate?) and since you have 8GB disable the swap file
http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/windows-tips-tutorials-articles/32471-disable-delete-recreate-paging-file-windows-7-a.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-want-to-delete-the-hiberfilsys-to-save-some-disk/ef41dcef-ed7a-447f-82da-e04c2b4dae11
If you have the hardware, install your OS on a separate hard drive, then you can store an image on a separate partition of your second hard drive. The only advantage of partitioning I can think of is if you format/switch OS often – it doesn’t add much more resilience as if the HDD dies, so do both partitions.
Do you think its a good idea to create partitions like this when using Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) with 8GB of physical ram?
I preferer as low as 25GB for windows partition because that way I can clone that partition to a file. I hate installing from DVD because it takes so damn long and you have to participate.This way it only takes about 10 mins. Do you think its small for Win 7?
1 25GB NTFS Windows 7
2 75GB FAT32 Virtual Memory + Scratch Disk for Photoshop
3 200GB NTFS Program Files
4 200GB NTFS Data Partition
+ 7GB Flash Disk for Ready Boost
Your thinking is squiffy – things like Acronis don’t care about the size of the disc, they only care about the USED size.
20g on a 25G drive is the same as 20G on a 100G drive.
My win7 partition is 50G. 32G of this is free space. Acronis only backs up the used space anyway,
Having a virtual memory drive on a separate partition is pointless – a separate DRIVE, yes, faster access.
If you have 8G ram then the VM will not be used that much.
A partition on the same drive equals head thrashing if pagefile does get written to.
Have the pagefile on c drive and tell Acronis to ignore it when backing up.
The other two you can size as you want.
My system is this – 50G C:, 324G D: and E:
I don’t advocate a readyboost flash drive at all, unless you surface mount it on the mother board.
RB is a waste of time and effort on an 8g + memory system – You’ll pretty often have plenty of that spare for main memory “readyboost” use.
thanks people very helpful